GOAL 4: CREATE A POSITIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT IN A SELF-RENEWING ORGANIZATION
MILESTONE 2: Systems are in place to recruit, support, and retain highly qualified and diverse professional and support personnel.
DATA POINT: Highly Qualified Teachers
OVERVIEW
The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation requires the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) to ensure that all teachers of core academic subjects meet the requirements to be designated “highly qualified” by July 1, 2006. Highly qualified teacher refers to a teacher who holds full state certification and has passed the state licensing examinations, or is an experienced teacher with an advanced professional certificate in the core academic subject (CAS) they are teaching, or has an academic major in the CAS they are teaching, or has qualified through the High, Objective, Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE) rubric. For purposes of NCLB reporting, a class is considered being taught by a highly qualified teacher if the class is in the subject area for which the teacher has certification and the highly qualified designation. Core academic subjects are art, music, dance, drama/theatre, early childhood, elementary (including immersion), English, foreign language, mathematics, reading and language arts, science, and social studies.
Of the 25,569 CAS classes taught by MCPS teachers as of December 1, 2005, 85.5 percent (21,855) were taught by teachers who were designated highly qualified and 14.5 percent (3,713) were taught by teachers who were not yet designated highly qualified. The percent of CAS classes being taught by highly qualified teachers has increased by 5.2 percent since December 2, 2004, when 80.3 percent (24,174) of 31,105 CAS classes were being taught by teachers who were designated highly qualified.
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